Grant Govan and also as REG Govan; December 1891, in Croydon district[2] – 26 January 1940, in Hardwar, United Provinces)[3] was a British industrialist[4] based in Delhi and the first President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
[9] Apart from the airline, Govan had other interests in aviation, like the Delhi Flying Club which he founded in 1928.
[14] When he died in 1940, Dr. P. Subbaroyan, then President of the (BCCI), issued a statement which read "In the death of Mr. Grant Govan, Indian Cricket has lost a friend ...".
[15] After his death, a few of his friends set up the Grant Govan Memorial Homes in Delhi.
These are meant to be retirement homes for Anglo-Indians with limited means and were inaugurated by Marchioness of Linlithgow, wife of the then Viceroy of India in October 1940.